Professor Grzegorz Pieńkowski of Polish Geological Institute – NGI has been appointed Chairman of the advisory European Science and Technology Network on Unconventional Hydrocarbon Extraction, as established by the European Commission.

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GeoShale2014 Conference (September 24-26, 2014) was held in line with conclusions of its predecessor - GeoShale2012 Conference on Recent Advances in Geology of Fine-grained Sediments. It was organized by the Polish Geological Institute under the patronage of the Polish Ministries of Environment, Science and Higher Education, EuroGeoSurveys and IUGS and AAPG-Europe Office.

Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute and the Minsk-based Belarusian Research Geologic Exploration Institute undertake further actions to implement joint monitoring of groundwater in border regions. An important step in the direction was the workshop organized in the PGI on 26-27 August 2014, which provided a forum for the exchange of experience in that field.